$1,013,632: Auckland's new average home value

It's not just Aucklanders scrambling to afford property.

A former Hamilton IRD employee has admitted not paying any tax or PAYE over a five year period.

A 14-year-old girl is in hospital after crashing a stolen car into a lamp post in Hamilton's CBD.

A woman who went missing on her bus journey from Wellington to Hamilton has been found safe in Levin.

A man has been stabbed in the leg with a boning knife after an argument in Hamilton.

A caregiver charged with assaulting an elderly man in a Hamilton rest home has appeared in court this morning.

A caregiver allegedly caught on covert camera footage hitting and slapping an elderly man in a rest home has been charged with assault.

A Hamilton Sikh and council candidate says he and his family are shocked and disgusted after his billboard was tagged with the word "Isis".

Police are searching for a man who is believed to have been in a kayak without a paddle.

A man has been taken to hospital in a serious condition after a pylon collapsed where a new pole is being put in for an expressway.

A Waikato woman was arrested in October and accused of creating fake CVs so that Filipinos could work in New Zealand.

An employee sustained serious burns to his calves and arm when the adhesive he was using caught fire.

The establishment of The Rail Opportunity Network (TRON) to re-examine the possibility of a commuter rail line from Hamilton to Auckland

The male calf arrived in June, bringing the total number of white rhinos at the zoo to six.

A woman was indecently assaulted by an intruder with a long, bushy and unkempt beard as she slept in her Hamilton home early this morning.

An 8-year-old hit by a car in Hamilton picked himself up and continued walking to school.

Neil Rendle has his best friend - and a TV ad - to thank for saving his life.

About 40 households in a remote area of Waikato have been without access to a reliable phone line for weeks.

Police say the girls missing since Sunday have been found safe and well.

Super City property buyers snaffle almost 20 per cent of June home sales in Hamilton and hit Tauranga and Whangarei markets.

Aleesha Tait had just finished her morning shift on a farm and was heading home for lunch when her farm bike and a car collided in Waikato.

Nick Marshall's shocked partner has come out swinging against police after officers shot him dead during an armed raid.

Police say the Hamilton man who was shot dead last night picked up a long-barrelled firearm and cocked it "in very close proximity" to officers.

A man shot dead by police during a search in Hamilton last night had presented a firearm police have revealed.

The only survivor of a Hamilton crash which killed four others is home and on the road to recovery.

A 9-year-old Hamilton boy hid in his room armed with a Nerf gun as a thief took his birthday present while his mum was out.

A man brandishing a metal hammer attacked a woman inside her car after she stopped on the side of the road to adjust her radio, police say.

Hamilton Zoo has welcomed a male white rhino calf following his mother's 16-month pregnancy.

Driving drunk wasn't the only bad decision a Waikato woman made - she also rear ended a cop car at a fast food drive-through before verbally abusing an officer.